Hardy, who returns to our screens this Sunday in a BBC1 adaption of Wilkie Collins’ novel The Woman In White, said he does not particularly have his sights set on Hollywood as he just wants to follow the “best work”.

And he said he could not see himself relocating to Los Angeles.

“There are lovely little pockets of LA, but it’s just so industry-orientated,” he said.

“And just everyone is an actor and you get an Uber and there is someone selling you a script or like telling you how they are just driving for research, and you’re just like, ‘Ugh I don’t care. I just want to go from A to B.’

“And you’ll be at an event or something and everyone in the room is doing that thing where they are talking to you but looking over your shoulder to see who else is around. That’s not really my kind of scene.”

He added: “I know a lot of actors go over there because they think, ‘If I go to LA it’s going to make my career’. Maybe it does, I don’t know, but I just don’t think I could live there.”